Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student looked at
an attractive and rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. She
was going home to Buffalo, New York, for the holidays. She was
about to say, “I can’t afford that bag,” when she recalled something
she had heard at one of my lec-tures which was, “Never finish a
negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders will happen
in your life.”
She said, “That bag is mine. It is for sale. I accept it men-tally, and
my subconscious sees to it that I receive it.”
At eight o’clock Christmas Eve her fiancé presented her with a bag
exactly the same as the one she had looked at and mentally identified
herself with at ten o’clock the same morning. She had filled her mind
with the thought of expectancy and released the whole thing to her
deeper mind, which has the “know-how” of accomplishment.
This young girl, a student at the University of Southern California,
said to me, “I didn’t have the money to buy that bag, but now I know
where to find money and all the things I need, and that is in the
treasure house of eternity within me.”
Another simple illustration is this: When you say, “I do not like
mushrooms,” and the occasion subsequently comes that you are
served mushrooms in sauces or salads, you will get indi-gestion
because your subconscious mind says to you, “The boss (your
conscious mind) does not like mushrooms.” This is an amusing
example of the outstanding differences and modes of operation of
your conscious and subconscious minds.
A woman may say, “I wake up at three o’clock, if I drink coffee at
night.” Whenever she drinks coffee, her subconscious mind nudges
her, as if to say, “The boss wants you to stay awake tonight.”
Your subconscious mind works twenty-four hours a day and makes
provisions for your benefit, pouring all the fruit of your habitual
thinking into your lap.